{"id":5875,"date":"2021-11-03T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2025-02-22T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:04:38","slug":"let-it-be-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/2021\/11\/03\/let-it-be-love\/","title":{"rendered":"LET IT BE LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like the school\u2019s theme song for the 2021-22 school year. It\u2019s called \u201cLet it be Love\u201d by Canadian band, The Color<\/a> (although, I expected them to call themselves \u201cThe Colour.\u201d)\u00a0 The song is catchy and fun\u2014toe-tapping, even, and I\u2019m not really a toe-tapper. It sticks and I catch myself humming the chorus as I walk out of chapel.<\/p>\n

The reason I like this song is because it\u2019s not just a Sunday song and because it is so biological.<\/p>\n

Blurring the Barrier<\/h2>\n

The song pushed back against a silly notion that has been a part of Christianity for a long time. The Apostle Paul dealt with it regularly in his letters and it\u2019s been running though our North American Christian culture to this day.<\/p>\n

The silly idea is this-we (sometimes) divide our lives up into two categories\u2014the Sacred and the Secular. In other words, God stuff and ordinary life<\/strong>.<\/span> In the Sacred category we have Sunday and church, prayer, and devotions. In the Secular category we have work and weekdays, entertainment, and hobbies.<\/p>\n

This song blurs the barrier between these two categories:<\/p>\n

In my home
\nEvery day
\nRule and reign
\nLord have your way<\/em><\/p>\n

Every moment I’m livin’
\nEvery breath that I’m givin’<\/p>\n

In this song we ask God to \u201crule and reign,\u201d not just in church or chapel, but \u201cin my home.\u201d Not just Sunday, but \u201cevery moment I\u2019m livin\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Everything Significant<\/h2>\n

I also like that this song is so biological. Dividing body from soul is a part of the Sacred\/Secular divide. We sometimes think that activities of the body, like sex and eating, are spiritually inferior to those of the soul, like praying and singing praise and worship songs. But in reality, there is no separation; everything we do with our bodies is spiritually significant. And everything that is spiritually significant involves bodies.<\/p>\n

We worship with our bodies as well as our souls.<\/p>\n

In my heart
\nMeet me here
\nDraw me near
\nThis is my prayer<\/em><\/p>\n

Heart and Lungs<\/h2>\n

I love how both body and soul are part of the song \u201cLet It Be Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let it be love<\/em>
\nThat fills my song
\nThat fills my lungs
\nEvery beat of my heart<\/em><\/p>\n

Here, the word \u201cheart\u201d is used in both a spiritual and a physical sense. On the one hand it is the site of our meeting with God. On the other it\u2019s the blood pumping organ in our chest. And then there\u2019s the lungs\u2014the physical organs that are necessary to sing praises to our creator. Body and soul together.<\/p>\n

This song will remind us every time we sing it this year, that all of life belongs to God. Sunday does for sure, but so do Saturday night and Monday morning.<\/strong><\/span> We will be reminded that we worship God when we sing, but we also worship him when we work and play. That we can connect with God in our morning prayers, but also as we stand in front of the bathroom mirror and behold one of his most precious creations.<\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026I like this song.<\/p>\n